Lectures
Past Events
- Browse list of Kenneth Karmiole Lecture Series on the History of the Book Trade talks.
- Browse list of Stephen A. Kanter Lecture on California Fine Printing talks.
- Browse list of William Andrews Clark Lecture on Oscar Wilde talks.
- Browse list of Lectures, 2000–.
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22 Oct
“All is well except the women”: Violence, Gender, and Native Women in the La Florida
- Tuesday, October 22, 2019
- 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
- Royce Hall, Room 306
- 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095
Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms Lecture –Alejandra Dubcovsky, University of California, Riverside In 1695 a Native woman shocked a Spanish officer with her deeply personal story of loss. She claimed that a Spanish woman had murdered her baby. Soon other women came forward with tales of abuse. These underexplored testimonies provide important insights into the lives and experiences of Native women in the...
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6 Nov
“Entered for his copy”: Reading the Stationers’ Register
- Wednesday, November 6, 2019
- 4:00 pm – 5:15 pm
- William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
- 2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018
Fifteenth Kenneth Karmiole Lecture on the History of the Book Trade —given by Ian Gadd, Bath Spa University The Stationers' Register is one of the most consulted archival documents of the early modern period. It is also, frankly, one of the least understood. First established in 1557 by the London Stationers' Company to record the publishing rights of its members...
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5 Feb
A West African Imam in 18th Century London: How the Radical Enlightenment Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade
- Wednesday, February 5, 2020
- 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
- Royce Hall, Room 306
- 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095
Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms Lecture –Catherine A. J. Molineux, Vanderbilt University No registration is required. There is no charge for this event. Questions? Contact Jeanette LaVere at jlavere@humnet.ucla.edu or 310-206-8552.
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19 May
Hidden Histories of the French Wars of Religion: French Accounts of the New World as a Vector of Religious Polemic
- Tuesday, May 19, 2020
- 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
- Royce Hall, Room 306
- 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095
Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms Lecture –Andrea Frisch, University of Maryland, College Park Contemporary readers of Jean de Léry’s Histoire d’un voyage en terre de Brésil, first published in 1578, have tended to downplay or outright ignore the context of the work’s composition and repeated publication in the midst of the French Wars of Religion. Though most scholars acknowledge Léry’s status as...